Quinn has to temper romance with reality to bring glory days back to Sunderland

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Only the most driven Premiership stars of today will choose to remain in the public glare and head into management, writes Matt Dickinson

IT IS not an easy thing for a millionaire footballer to admit without sounding unbearably spoilt — which is why they don’t say it — but, as they head towards the latter years of their careers, many of today’s Premiership stars claim to find the pleasures of their job harder to come by.

They love playing but they hate the intrusion and the high profile. They are worn down by every misdemeanour being picked over in the papers and on television. They resent the fact that they have to worry about ulterior motives every time a stranger offers to buy